Monday, January 29, 2007

Replacement Nipples (for the ThinkPad)

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My wife has an X23 series model 2662 IBM ThinkPad. For years, she's avoided using the TrackPoint pointing device embedded in the keyboar...
Friday, January 26, 2007

MythFrontend and HDHomeRun Wireless on a MacBook

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[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. I've been running the MythTV Fronte...

Be careful with your CFBundleVersion

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This post is along the way of a reminder to myself should I ever have to figure out how my application's plist has caused the Launch Ser...
Monday, December 25, 2006

Static Libraries dependent upon static libraries in XCode

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Just a helpful hint to try and prevent your wasting time like we did at my day job. We have a large C++ application which has several differ...
Saturday, December 02, 2006

HDHomeRun - Networked HDTV Tuner

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[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. I have a PCHDTV 3000 PCI card in the D...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Dell 2005FPW with the LG LST-3510A HDTV receiver

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I have a two year old Dell 20.1" widescreen LCD display (2005FPW). I also have three LG LST-3510A HDTV receiver/DVD players. Just so an...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

XCode debugger exited with status (1)

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All of a sudden an XCode project which I was sharing with a collaborator refused to be debugged. The debugger was evidently exiting unexpect...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

How not to use the boost singleton class

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This is an odd and frustrating warning I was seeing while using the templated singleton class which comes with the boost C++ libraries whil...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

New version of Remote Remote GH for MythTV

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Just posted some fixes I did over the last several hours in a new release .
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Blogger Dashboard Widget

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Google has a bunch of Dashboard Widgets out today. Just testing to see how that works.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Setting up a Cheap Version Control Server for XCode

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If you program, you need a version control system. We've all heard it, we all know it. But it's a trouble to setup and a pain in the...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Throwing RAM at XCode Linking

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In my day job, I spend a lot of time compiling and linking a fairly large commercial C++ application. My PowerBook G4 was not up to the task...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Windmill vs. New Refrigerator

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Must resist urge to use the word tilting I recently bought a Kill A Watt energy consumption measuring device, and have become an enthusiast...
Monday, July 31, 2006

Brenthaven Laptop Bags: MacBook Slim

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I purchased a MacBook two weeks ago. I am replacing my trusty PowerBook simply because the MacBook is so much faster and Apple no longer sel...
Friday, July 28, 2006

Advice to the 30 year old car buyer

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And now for something completely different. Advice on buying cars. Three years ago, I was single, dating, and car shopping. I had always dri...
Saturday, July 01, 2006

The Ongoing Expense of MythTV (or why is my electric bill $105 with no air conditioning?)

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A few months ago, I purchased a Kill-A-Watt power monitoring device, and today I went around the house and measured the power usage of my v...
Sunday, June 11, 2006

Channel Master 7775 versus Radio Shack In-line Amplifier

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In my, seemingly, never ending quest for reliable reception of the Boston Fox affiliate, I decided to upgrade my rooftop antenna's (Wine...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Signal Strength Script for EyeTV 2.2.1

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[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. The following script works with EyeTV 2...
Monday, May 22, 2006

Tuner card versus an HDTV receiver

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A coworker, who knows I am an HDTV know-it-all, asked me whether he should get a tuner card for his desktop PC or buy an ATSC tuner box for ...

Don't act like a tourist in New York

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My friend Mindy has another blog site exploring New York City both day and night. It's New York City Nomad . I read her first post about...